Friday, April 7, 2017
Patrick Marber directs his own “Don Juan in Soho”; Dorothea Myer-Bennett brings grace and gravitas to “The Lottery of Love”; and “The Kid Stays in the Picture” has a too-brief ru…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMFriday, March 31, 2017
Adam J. Bernard has appeared on the London stage in Thriller Live and I Can’t Sing! The X Factor Musical but is having a breakout year with his thunderous…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Trevor Nunn presents an uneasy hybrid of the Terence Rattigan work, while a new play about the origins of the S.D.P. is punchy and vibrantly directed by Polly Findlay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54AMThursday, March 23, 2017
The West End’s dance-heavy spring began with the U.K. premiere of An American in Paris and continues with a revival of 42nd Street, returning to the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMFriday, March 17, 2017
S'marvelous indeed: there's no other way to describe the grace, panache and irresistible ease that ballet star Robert Fairchild is bringing to his starring part in the West End&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMSaturday, March 11, 2017
A cast led by Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, under the direction of James Macdonald, gives Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork an unforgettable production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMFriday, March 10, 2017
The Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough was last on the London stage early in 2014 when he played the Fool to Simon Russell Beale's King Lear and will soon be seen as the side…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMA cast led by Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill, under the direction of James Macdonald, gives Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork an unforgettable production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Donna McKechnie is that increasing rarity: a Broadway legend whose vitality defies the years (was A Chorus Line really four decades ago?). She can now be seen back on the London st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36AMFriday, February 24, 2017
The staging of the Broadway musical from 2000 can suggest “Follies” or “Chicago” on speed, but the score by Michael John LaChiusa remains treasurable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Conleth Hill may be best known as the manipulative eunuch Lord Varys on the international TV hit Game of Thrones, but the gifted Northern Irish actor has two Olivier Awards and a 2001 Tony n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMFriday, February 17, 2017
Freddie Fox has appeared on the London stage opposite Lindsay Duncan in Hay Fever and Rupert Everett in The Judas Kiss, among many other credits. but is currently giving …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMMonday, February 13, 2017
The director Annie Ryan turns up the volume in her production of the John Webster gore-fest from 1612. Two contemporary plays seem tepid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
Broadway actor Michael Esper has made a sizable impression on the London stage of late, moving from his acclaimed performance opposite Michael C. Hall in the U.K. stage debut of the David Bo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMFriday, February 3, 2017
Two-time Olivier Award winner Joanna Riding has staked her formidable reputation on such musical theater classics as Carousel and My Fair Lady, now she is in previews at the P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
The playwright’s debut work packs a wallop, while a revival of the 1968 Broadway musical “Promises, Promises,” among other productions, is weak tea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Paul Ritter was a 2009 Tony nominee for his superb performance in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests and now the British stage and TV stalwart is appearing with Rufus Sewe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Florence Andrews is lending some sterling vocals and whiplash timing to the London premiere of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical School of Rock, based on the Richard Linklater/Jack Black film …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Ben Turner's theater credits include the Eddie Redmayne Richard II at the Donmar and the Almeida's revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing but the classically trained performer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
Matthew Seadon-Young's London musical credits include Billy Elliot, Urinetown and Les Miserables and now the ebullient performer is playing the American lyricist (and onetime husband of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
No sooner had the gossamer-voiced Scarlett Strallen got herself a base in New York before the English star of such shows as Mary Poppins, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and the W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMIt’s not that men were in any way denied a viewing, but Billie Piper, Glenda Jackson, Sophie Melville and others shined.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26AMWednesday, December 28, 2016
Defining productions of Tom Stoppard and August Wilson classics raised the bar high for revivals in a classics-heavy year that also found Glenda Jackson, of all people, taking on the title r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMFriday, December 23, 2016
Broadway's new season promises a diet of big stars – and the best cure for winter blues is that ray of sunshine Carrie FisherIt's a new year, but Broadway is up to its old tricks, with sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
Barbara Marten is a veteran presence on stage and screen with a sizable range of British TV credits that include a series regular on The Bill. The actress has returned to the West End t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMThursday, December 15, 2016
Monday, December 12, 2016
Jim Lichtscheidl has played London before, as part of an amalgam of Tony Kushner one-acts that came to the Tricycle Theatre in 2010 under the title Tiny Kushner. This season finds the Minnes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Philippa Stefani has a wide-ranging list of musical credits that include Imagine This, Wicked, GhostI Can't Sing! and In the Heights, and now the performer is taking on the role of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMFriday, December 2, 2016
The play by Lucy Kirkwood is at the Royal Court; also reviewed are “The Sewing Group” by E.V. Crowe and a revival of Somerset Maughan’s “Sheppey.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Nathaniel Parker has twice played Broadway, first opposite Dustin Hoffman in 1989 in The Merchant of Venice and then in 2015 in his Tony-nommed performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall, f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48AMThursday, November 17, 2016
Samantha Barks came to worldwide attention as Eponine in the film of Les Miserables but has an extensive list of stage credits including Les Miz, Aladdin and City of Angels. The 26-year-old …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PM 
